
Remember your duct tape dummy? Here's where it gets a moment to shine!
Hang your trouble pieces on the dummy... and heat form them there. If your dummy is anatomically as accurate as possible to your body frame, you won't need to switch the pieces around quite so much and you can see the process from the outside looking in - a new perspective!






As for WHAT you use to heat form, I used - yes, seriously - a hair dryer. That's all the heat you will need. If you don't have one, you won't need to spend more than $10 on one to get the heat required.
Use your mask, though... heated resin particulates smell just as nasty as wet resin.
With the back piece especially (but the chest as well) you can use the dummy to hang the piece while you heat it. You'll need to experiment on your own a little fore this part... there's a 'tolerance point' of heat for the resin... up to that point, it's semi-pliable as far as heat goes... but once you reach that point, it becomes a lot easier to work with.
Be careful you don't bend things too far (this is why we have multiple coats both outside and inside the pieces)!
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For larger pieces, duct tape the snot out of it, then heat form it directly on your dummy... your dummy is reasonably close to your body shape, so even if you move a section too much, it is still much more recoverable than flipping the pieces on and off your body... and a lot faster!

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